Owen Pallett - I Am Not Afraid lyrics

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I am not afraid, ze said, of the non-believer within me

No delight at the pain of my enemies, no tears for any friends I have lost

You are not alone, I said, it is a trial to keep my belief suspended

I leave my violin unattended in a cab or a restaurant

And then when ze started to sing, nobody could’ve called them crazy

Open chord forever unchanging, holy eternal drone

I’ll never have any children, I’d bear them and eat them, my children

I’m gonna change my body in the light and the shadow of suspicion

I am no longer afraid, the truth doesn’t terrify us, terrify us

My salvation is found in discipline, discipline

I haven’t had a smoke in years but I will catch a drag if you are smoking

They told me to chew on a toothpick, they told me to take a deep breath

What is better is to punch a wall, to bin the boxes of your old love letters

To be impassive to the words that could save you, to need to see the world as ash

And I’ll never have any children, I would bear them and confuse them, my children

And I’m not at all afraid of changing but I don’t know what good it would do me

I am no longer afraid, The truth doesn’t terrify us, terrify us

My salvation is found in discipline, discipline